Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2704

      The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2000 No. 2704

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

  Made 1st October 2000 
  Laid before Parliament 4th October 2000 
  Coming into force 25th October 2000 

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 218(1)(a), (2), (2A) and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988[1] the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:

     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 25th October 2000.

    
2. Schedule 3 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999[2] shall be amended as follows.

     3. Schedule 3 shall become Part I of Schedule 3, and immediately before paragraph 1 there shall be inserted the heading "PART I".

    
4. Part I of Schedule 3 shall be amended by - 

    (a) the substitution in paragraph 1(1)(b) for the words from "paragraphs 2 to 9" to "States of Guernsey Education Council" of "paragraphs 2 to 10, and if he is a person mentioned in paragraph 7, 8 or 10, that the statement submitted by the recommending body, the States of Guernsey Education Council or the recommending authority";

    (b) the substitution in paragraph 1(2) for "9" of "10";

    (c) the substitution in paragraph 1(3) for "7 or 9" each time they occur of "7, 9 or 10"; and

    (d) the insertion after paragraph 9 of the following paragraph - 

         " 10.  - (1) The recommending authority has submitted to the Secretary of State a recommendation that a person should be awarded qualified teacher status and a statement that - 

      (a) on the date of the recommendation he is employed as a teacher in an independent school; and

      (b) he has been assessed by the recommending authority as meeting the specified standards; and

      (c)

        (i) before 1st January 1974 he obtained qualifications meeting the requirements of paragraph 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 of Part II of this Schedule, or

        (ii) before 1st January 1974 he obtained a degree granted by a United Kingdom university or by the Council for National Academic Awards or by a foreign institution, or

        (iii) before 1st September 1989 he obtained a degree granted by a United Kingdom university or by the Council for National Academic Awards or by a foreign institution in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, zoology, physiology, biochemistry or geology; and

      (d) he was employed as a teacher in an independent school before 1st September 1989.

        (2) In this paragraph - 

      (a) "recommending authority" means - 

        (i) in the case of a teacher who is not a head teacher or principal, the head teacher or principal of the independent school at which he is employed to teach, and

        (ii) in the case of a head teacher or principal, the chairman of the governing body of the school, or if none the proprietor of the school;

      (b) "foreign institution" has the same meaning as in paragraph 2(2)(b); and

      (c) "specified standards" has the same meaning as in paragraph 9(2)(b).".

     5. The following Part shall be inserted after Part I of Schedule 3 - 




Estelle Morris
Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment

1st October 2000



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2166) to enable certain teachers employed in independent schools to be awarded qualified teacher status.

A teacher is eligible for qualified teacher status if he is currently employed as a teacher in an independent school, he has been assessed as meeting the standards for qualified teacher status, he holds one of the qualifications specified in these Regulations and he was employed as a teacher at an independent school before 1st September 1989. The specified qualifications are degrees and other qualifications approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of the award of qualified teacher status before 1st January 1974 and degrees approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of the award of qualified teacher status before 1st September 1989. Qualified teacher status may be awarded to such teachers on the recommendation of the head teacher or principal of the independent school at which they are employed, or in the case of the head teacher or principal of an independent school, on the recommendation of the chairman of the school's governing body, or if none the school's proprietor.


Notes:

[1] 1988 c. 40; section 218(2A) was inserted by section 14(1) of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30), and section 232(6) was amended by section 14 of the Education Act 1994 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 and Schedule 4 to the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30). The Secretary of State can exercise the power under section 218 only in relation to England: see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[2] S.I. 1999/2166.back



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